Russia

On approach to Khandyga Airport, the airplane crashed in unknown circumstances six km short of runway threshold. There were no casualties while the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

En route, the pilot made a mistake in handling the fuel system, causing the engine to flame out. The aircraft crash landed in a field near Tula and was damaged beyond repair. There were no casualties.

On a crop spraying flight for the kolkhoz (collective farm) "Oktyabr" at Besedino (Kursk district of the Kursk region) when lifted off at low speed after a take off run of 300 metres (the crew had neglected the influence of the tail/cross wind). The aircraft stalled at a height of some 10-15 metres and crashed 235 metres behind the runway threshold, about 15 km east of Kursk. A pilot was killed while the second occupant was seriously injured.

The single engine airplane was completing a cargo flight from Karam to Kazashinskoye, carrying two passengers, two pilots and a load of 1,194 kilos of potatoes. While in normal cruise, the crew informed ATC he was diverting to Yukhta for unknown reasons. Few minutes later, while flying in snow falls, the airplane struck trees and crashed in flames on the slope of a mountain located about 63 km north of Kazashinskoye. As the radio contact was lost and the airplane failed to arrive at destination, SAR operations were initiated but eventually suspended after few days as no trace of the aircraft nor the four occupants was found. The crew of an helicopter localized the wreckage on 21 June 1976. It was determined that the airplane struck trees at an altitude of 800 metres, got a little altitude then crashed 60 metres further in a forest. At the time of the accident, the visibility was probably below 2 km and below minimums.

On a night approach to Saratov-Tsentralny Airport, the pilot allowed the aircraft to drop below the glide path. The twin engine aircraft hit the runway surface with a positive acceleration of 2.35 g, bounced and nosed down prior to hit the runway a second time with a positive acceleration of 3 g. The aircraft went out of control, veered off runway to the left and came to rest in flames in a grassy area. While the aircraft was destroyed, all 57 occupants were evacuated safely.

While cruising by night at an altitude of 7,800 metres, the electrical system failed, causing several instruments to fail, among them gyros. Control was lost and the airplane entered a dive and eventually crashed in a nose-down angle of 70° in an open field located 150 metres from the village of Verkhnyaya Khava, about 50 km northeast of Voronezh. Some debris of the airplane were found at a depth of 14 meters. It disintegrated on impact and all 111 occupants were killed.

At liftoff, the right wing dropped and the airplane rolled to the right to an angle of 70°, causing the right wing to struck the snow covered ground 129 metres to the right of the runway. Out of control, the airplane crossed a taxiway, passed behind an air Koryo TU-154 that just landed (some debris struck the TU-154) and came to rest in flames, broken in three, 232 metres further. The wreckage was found 180 metres southeast of the runway end. 78 people, among them a stewardess, were injured, 12 people were unhurt. 24 occupants were killed, 15 passengers and nine crew members.

The crew was performing a flight from Riga to Kirov with an intermediate stop in Leningrad. The approach was started by night and below minima-weather conditions. On final approach, the aircraft dropped below the glide path and the captain switched off the ground proximity warning system so the aircraft hit tree tops some 1,700 metres before the inner marker, stalled and crashed in a wooded area located 2,165 metres before the runway threshold. All 5 crew members and 23 of the 39 passengers were injured. The aircraft was destroyed.

26 seconds after takeoff from runway 24 at Moscow-Vnukovo Airport, while climbing to a height of 200 metres, the crew retracted the landing gear and reduced the engine power to nominal value. Once the altitude of 250 metres was reached, while at a speed of 340 km/h, the airplane entered a right turn when the crew was cleared to climb to 1,500 metres. The crew failed to acknowledge this clearance when seven seconds later, the airplane entered a left turn, nosed down and crashed at a speed of 550 km/h onto a house located 5,400 meters from the runway end and 1,800 metres to the right of its extended centerline. The aircraft and the house were totally destroyed and all 61 occupants were killed as well as one people in the house. Another person on the ground was injured.

Crashed upon landing somewhere in Russia. There were no casualties. The exact date of the mishap remains unknown, somewhere in 1975.